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Maori Holmes curates film screening at ICA Philadelphia

Maori Karmael Holmes (LTA ’06, ACG ’06, ’05) is curating a film screening at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia (118 S. 36th Street) on Wednesday, June 10, entitled She Found A Place.... inspired by ICA exhibition Do/Tell. The program includes short films by Frances Bodomo, Sara Zia Ebrahimi (LTA '14, ACG '13, '09), Sonali Gulati, Kate Marks, Tiona McClodden (ATR '12, LTA '09, ACG '07), Akosua Adoma Owusu and Irit Reinheimer (ACG '06) with special musical interludes by singer-songwriter, Kate Faust

6:30pm The bar is open. Record your dreams while you sip on Magnusson Twists in the Night Times Press Bar in the ICA exhibition Consider the Belvedere. Dream stenographer Jim Hopper will be on hand to transcribe your reveries.

7:00pm Raise a glass as soulful mezzo-soprano Lauren Eberwein performs the drinking song “Les Bouteilles de la Table Ronde,“ with a score by composer Tony Solitro.

7:30pm Gather on the ICA Terrace for a screening program curated by Maori Holmes of BlackStar Film Festival and inspired by ICA exhibition Do/Tell. Refreshments will be served.

The exhibition and program series Do/Tell draws upon ICA’s 1994 exhibition Carrie Mae Weems to explore how acts of storytelling construct ideas of home, family, and identity.

Heather Hart’s site-specific porch installation structures the exhibition space and represents a transition between home and the world outside. Walk on it or crawl underneath to find an archive of local oral histories collected by artist Erin Bernard, the curators, and Jubilee School students from West Philadelphia.

Akosua Adoma Owusu’s 2013 film Kwaku Ananse narrates a Ghanaian myth interwoven into the story of a young woman returning to the country for her father’s funeral, and shows how cultural stories shape-shift as they pass between generations. Similarly, Rachelle Mozman’s staged photographs featuring her own family members relate larger Latino diasporic experience.

Taken as a whole, these works lace and loosen ties between personal stories and historical scripts that shape identity.

Still from Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kwaku Ananse, 2013, HD film, color, sound, 25 min. Courtesy of the artist and Obibini Pictures.

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